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It’s ironic that you accuse Tolstoy of invading Ukraine when the text already speaks for itself.
by dullcrisp 3y ago
It’s ironic that you accuse Tolstoy of invading Ukraine when the text already speaks for itself.
- gumby 3y agoI re-read my comment and I think it’s clear. Russia had this kind of cultural inferiority complex back in the days of Tolstoy, which I think helped him skewer it in War And Peace (the events of which were shortly before his birth). And in the War and Peace days that quoted scene also shone a light on the macro (geopolitical) level of feeling like they weren’t really part of the “in group”. Feels like the same might have been true when he wrote the novel (invading Crimea in the 1850s is also a good example) but I am not a scholar of Russia. Also the same is true in today’s Russia, with Putin and others vainly trying to prove that Russia is still part of some inner ring, which they most definitely no longer are.